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still is. I get a kick out of it. There is always green oil paint on a door handle or orange in her hair, or a paint rag floating in the pool, or our pug has made off with some food from one of her still-life paintings. Studio practices. Sarah: Our day usually starts around 8:30 am and ends around 4:30 to 7 pm, depending on the light. We are equally hard workers and enjoy what we do. It's nice to have our studios at home so we can just pop upstairs and stretch a canvas or sign a painting if we need to. David: We work all the time. People have a romantic idea of painters only working when inspiration strikes. We work more like junior associates in a big law firm or an investment bank. But we love it. It's definitely more passion than work. On your differences. Sarah: It's very obvious to most people who see our studios that Dave is extremely neat and I am a mess! He says I keep his OCD in check. D a v i d : S h e i s spontaneous in her p a i n t i n g s . I a m meticulous. I think an artist's personality comes through in their brushwork. Her feelings are faithfully and beautifully recorded in tactile, fluid, and sublime strokes. She is rightly famous for her paint handling. Conversely, I try to make myself invisible and suppress my hand to let the portrait subject do all the talking. Epiphanies. Sarah: Age 12, Andrew Wyeth's Helga portraits at the Corcoran. I was already familiar with Christina's World, but this was such a different experience. All of those skillfully done portraits and nudes … To see how realistically he was painting with tempera and watercolor was eye-opening." David: I saw Albrecht Dürer's self-portrait (from 1500) in Art History 101. From that moment on, I have wanted to paint people. Artists who inspire. Sarah: William Nicholson, Henri Fantin- Latour, Emil Carlsen, Joaquín Sorolla, Andrew Wyeth, Claudio Bravo, Wayne Theibaud, the Peale family of Philadelphia. "We understand how unique our careers are. It's probably rare to have two married artists who do the same style of painting but in different genres." — Sarah Lamb From top, works by Sarah Lamb: Little Mussel, 2025. Wood Duck, 2025. Sarah Lamb in her Houston studio. 111